JOIN CHALLENGE:FUTURE AND PROMOTE STUDENT INNOVATION AT YOUR SCHOOL

Welcome to Challenge:Future, an international student competition aimed at promoting collaboration and innovation for the world’s sustainable future. Designed to provide an exceptional experience, Challenge:Future offers participating schools:

• A unique learning and development opportunity for all undergraduate and graduate students ages 18 to 30,
• A new avenue for developing mentoring and teaching excellence for all faculty members,
• A chance to demonstrate openness to innovation and global vision for a school as a whole.

BENEFITS FOR SCHOOLS PARTNERING WITH CHALLENGE:FUTURE:

• Public recognition as an active and innovative school, capable of interacting with Generation Y
• Tap to annual theme “The Future of Connecting”
• Exclusively dedicated page on the competition’s online platform with updated statistics of your school’s student and mentor involvements
• 10 schools with most successful students, teams and mentors will be recognized in Challenge:Future Hall of Fame as Most Innovative Schools
• Challenge:Future encourages teamwork, collaboration and out-of-the-box thinking among students in the process of team creation and working together on the corporate challenges
• Challenge:Future promotes your professors and their expertise through their involvement as mentors
• Providing your students with an opportunity to compete for great prizes, including EUR 20,000 grand award

HOW TO GET STARTED:

Assign a coordinator for Challenge:Future from your school and provide her/ him with all necessary support in order to:

• Engage students for registering and actively working on the Challenge:Future platform
• Engage mentors – collect the list of faculty who would like to act as mentors to student teams
• Promote Challenge:Future and its annual theme in education curriculum (subjects related to innovation, organizational development, change management, sustainability, and other); where possible, active student participation in Challenge:Future could result in getting higher marks for the course
• Promote Challenge:Future and annual theme within your school, partners, media and in education curriculum (subjects related to innovation, organizational development, change management, sustainability, and other) where possible
• Challenge:Future encourages teamwork, collaboration and out-of-the-box thinking among students in the process of team creation and working together on the corporate challenges

We would be happy to provide you with any additional information and promotional materials (Challenge:Future poster, brochure or customized student invitation), answer your questions and receive comments, and look forward to your response.

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